Video on anti-teaching (US Professor of the Year)
Take the time to listen to Mike Wesch, the US Professor of the Year. I want to thank my friend, Nancy, for her discussion on his video. The “WE” in education is critically important in any classroom from 1st graders up to university classes of 400+. The teacher who can inspire the community to go [...]
WMD’s
All you educators will enjoy this site and its sense of humor. Weapons of Math Destruction Comics This comic has particular links to the state of gifted education in the US. Imagine, you as an adult, sitting in a workshop where the instructor is slowing down the delivery of information to a snail’s pace so [...]
National Observance Week for GT (in the Philippines)
The Department of Education in the Philippines celebrates the 2008 National Observance of the week for the gifted and talented. A clip from their website: 1. Every fourth week of November, the nation observes National Week for the Gifted and Talented, an event declared through Presidential Proclamation No. 199 signed on Oct 19, 1999. This [...]
Cyber Monday
I consider myself fairly tech-savvy but I learned something that probably most tech-savvy people already knew: the Monday after Black Friday is called Cyber Monday. This is when companies make a big push to get you to order online. I decided to check my Business filter in GMail, and found 86 emails from companies like [...]
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